Articles

How Simple Mediation Skills Can Bring Peace After The Election

Accordence Co-Founder Grande Lum was recently interviewed in Forbes by Forbes contributor and Director of the American Negotiation Institute and Business Lawyer Kwame Christian. It is a thoughtful reading about how knowledge of mediation & conflict can help us all interpersonally after a stressful election season.

Resolve to Evolve: Skill-Wise That Is!

According to an examination by LinkedIn on the most impactful stories of the past year shared across their social networking site subscribed to by 225 million professionals, how to stay relevant through skill development is what so many successful people want to know. As Accordence professionals continuously learn, the crucial set of skills that we all need for individual and collaborative success is grounded in communication.  

Strategic Change: Even Though It’s Good For You It Doesn’t Mean It’s Easy

“Change is no longer the exception, it’s the rule.” How many times have we heard that before? Particularly from the business perspective, more books, articles, case studies and blogs have been written on the subject, a relatively new and dominating field of change management has emerged, and strategic agility has become a highly prioritized competency for leaders.  

The Dying Art of Interpersonal Savvy: Red Flags in a Technically-Succumbed World

There are the realities of how technology gives us the ‘easy out’ when it comes to engaging with people. While technology certainly has its upsides, in the long run when impersonalization in the name of efficiency in the workplace becomes the new norm and is hard-wired into our brain, we lose practice of (and confidence in) our crucial interpersonal skills - talking, listening, understanding, empathizing, and positive non-verbal face-to-face cues like making eye contact.